XPost: sci.geo.satellite-nav, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: walterjones@invalid.nospam   
      
   Andy Burns  wrote   
      
   >> One thing I could not, for the life of me figure out then, and now, is how   
   >> you  managed to change  your home router's MAC (BSSID) address   
   >   
   > At that time my router was running openWRT so I could have overridden   
   > the hardware MAC address, but don't actually think I did.   
      
   Thanks for confirming, as I'm well aware all the platforms (Windows, Linux   
   & Android) can change "their" connecting MAC address - but the one MAC   
   address that is outward facing is the one in the home router itself.   
      
   I'm aware there is a CLI on every router but I don't know (yet) of any   
   command that will clone/spoof/change the hard-coded outward facing MAC.   
      
   > I have a feeling that the .json file I used contained some of my   
   > neighbours' BSSIDs rather than my own, however I'm using a different   
   > router now.   
      
   The problem with privacy from Google is in two ways (both because most   
   people are stupid as I said back in 2016) that we have to protect against.   
      
   1. People who drive by our homes upload to Google our broadcast information   
   2. People next door broadcast their information (which is at our location)   
      
   It wasn't so bad when Google didn't force "precise location" scanning.   
      
   But now that Google forces that on smartphones, we're doomed as a result   
   unless we can figure out a way to prevent this from happening to us.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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